Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep dark secret that the late President Harding played poker while some of his pals of the "Ohio gang" and a few oil men were developing nest eggs by big deals arid little black satchels. No doubt, much of this was grimy work. With scarcely any of the attitude of now-it-can-be-told, with a confident feeling of now-it-can-be-sold, an even grimier novel- has recently been published. Novelist Adams takes as his hero Willis Markham, President of the U. S., a poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, easygoing, good-natured pal who was lifted suddenly...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump of the horse. Martin, wearing a ruff, inclined with pity in the saddle, severs with his sword the dark and heavy cloak. A shrine stands at the right; a black tree whirls on the left; overhead the tortured sky drives on in folds of black and grey. Christ has not yet appeared...
...interviews from famous person ages, write feature stories on occasion, and do a certain amount of office work. The aspirant for a place on the Photographic staff is given opportunity of taking pictures that have news value. Besides this he is furnished with the finest and latest photographic equipment. Dark room training is also supplied...